Ill. Jury Awards Mom $28M After Doctors Ignore Labor Stress

By Lauraann Wood

A Cook County jury in Illinois has awarded $28 million to a mother who accused several University of Illinois Hospital doctors of failing to deliver her son by Cesarean section despite him showing several warning signs during labor that suggested the procedure was necessary, her attorneys announced.

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Cities, Counties Fight Revival Of FEMA Election Conditions

By Tom Lotshaw

Cities and counties in Ohio, Tennessee and Texas, along with two dozen state allies, urged the D.C. Circuit to reject the Trump administration's push to revive a vacated Federal Emergency Management Agency rule that conditioned counterterrorism grant funding on election policy changes.

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PVC Pipe Buyers Cut Deals Totaling $212.5M In Price-Fix Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

Direct PVC pipe buyers asked an Illinois federal judge Thursday to preliminarily approve settlements totaling $212.5 million with five manufacturers in consolidated price-fixing litigation, which would more than double the $200 million recovery for direct purchasers already approved in the litigation.

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Glenmark's $30M Drug Price-Fixing Deal Gets Final OK

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Connecticut federal judge has granted final approval to a $29.6 million settlement between dozens of states and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals that resolves claims accusing the company of conspiring with competitors to drive up drug prices.

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Squire Patton, Baker McKenzie Hit With Data Breach Suits

By Rae Ann Varona

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Baker McKenzie failed to protect private personal information stored in the law firms' systems from separate cyberattacks and delayed notifying affected individuals for roughly two months, two proposed class actions filed in Ohio and Illinois federal courts have alleged.

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DOJ Antitrust Unit Probing Packaging Industry

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division has issued grand jury subpoenas to several paper and packaging companies, including Packaging Corporation of America and International Paper, according to securities filings.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Midterms, Q3 Results

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including midterm election impacts on real estate and third-quarter takeaways from top CRE brokerages and investment firms.

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Hemp Interests Say Illinois Law Impedes Interstate Commerce

By Sam Reisman

A coalition of hemp industry interests have filed a new lawsuit in Illinois federal court challenging a new state hemp policy that they allege is unconstitutional.

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NJ Pushes Judge To Scrap DOJ's Immigrant Tuition Challenge

By Tom Lotshaw

New Jersey has asked a federal judge to toss a Trump administration suit challenging a law making certain unauthorized immigrants eligible for in-state college tuition, arguing the administration "seeks to exercise powers it does not possess to find a conflict where none exists."

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McDonald's Falsely Touts 'Sugar Free' Coffee Bevs, Suit Says

By Rae Ann Varona

McDonald's "sugar free" McCafé coffee beverages actually have up to 18 grams of sugar due to dairy, consumers alleged Friday in a proposed false advertising class action filed in Illinois federal court, saying the fast-food chain's use of the "sugar free" term violates federal regulations and consumer protection laws.

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Boeing Can't Appeal Punitive Damages Door Plug Ruling

By Ben Adlin

A Washington state judge Thursday rejected Boeing's effort to quickly appeal a ruling that denied its bid to block punitive damages in passengers' lawsuit over the 2024 blowout of an aircraft door panel, siding with plaintiffs attempting to show the incident had ties to the aerospace giant's former Chicago headquarters.

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Brief

Schedule Clashes May Keep Chicago DOJ Testimony In Place

By Lauraann Wood

Another Chicago prosecutor ordered to testify about the circumstances surrounding a since-dropped push to prosecute six "Operation Midway Blitz" protesters says the hearing may be approaching too quickly, but a federal judge says she won't reschedule it unless all parties involved agree on the next date.

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State Of Insurance: Q3 Notes From Illinois

In the past quarter, two Seventh Circuit rulings and an Illinois appellate decision applied state insurance law to issues ranging from the illusory coverage doctrine and an insured's right to independent counsel, to the time to commence uninsured motorist arbitration, says Matthew Fortin at BatesCarey.

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DOE Energy Efficiency Rollbacks Portend Clashes With States

With the U.S. Department of Energy proposing rollbacks of energy efficiency regulations for numerous appliance types, backstop provisions in many states could come into play to preserve existing standards — but disputes over antibacksliding provisions in federal law and the limits of preemption mean court battles are likely, say attorneys at HWG.

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Opinion

Judges Must Turn To Merits Earlier To Fix Civil Justice System

The U.S. justice system is long overdue for a cultural shift that encourages judges to engage with the merits of a case from the outset, which would help to cut through procedural complexities and deliver high-quality justice efficiently and at lower cost, says Steven Kayman at Rottenberg Lipman.

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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Susman Godfrey LLP, Langer Grogan & Diver PC, Hausfeld LLP and MoloLamken LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit ruled that a former federal judge erred by scrapping a $4.7 billion jury verdict against the National Football League in a class action over the price of its Sunday Ticket broadcast package.

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Judge Kewalramani Warns Against Taking Sanctions Lightly

By Dani Kass

Retired U.S. Magistrate Judge Shashi Kewalramani on Friday cautioned patent attorneys to be extremely discerning when filing sanctions motions, comparing it to crying "fire" in a crowded room.

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Brief

US Legal Sector Jobs Reached Record High In October

By Tracey Read

The legal industry's hot streak continued last month, adding 2,400 more jobs in October to reach a record high, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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US Charges 3 Over $129M AI Scam Using Fake UK Lawyers

By Laura Stewart Liberty

U.S. prosecutors said Thursday they have charged three men, including one facing extradition from London, for allegedly defrauding companies of $129 million through a scheme that used AI to impersonate executives and U.K. lawyers.

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Defeated Texas Justice Being Considered For Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

With the clock ticking on Republicans' control of the Senate, President Donald Trump is considering putting a Texas Supreme Court justice who just lost reelection on the federal bench.

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Attys Can Curb AI Error Fallout With Candor, Accountability

By Andrea Keckley

Nearly four years since ChatGPT launched and the legal industry began experimenting at scale with generative artificial intelligence, not a month goes by without another attorney finding a hallucination error in a court filing.

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Top Blanche Adviser Among Latest To Exit DOJ

By Jared Foretek

A top legal adviser to U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced his departure from the U.S. Department of Justice Friday, becoming the latest in a slew of high-profile resignations from the department since Republicans' midterm election defeat Tuesday night.

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Ice Miller Sued Over $729K Award After Losing Federal Forum

By Andrea Keckley

A couple who hired Ice Miller LLP to defend their organization against a breach of contract suit have accused the firm in Indiana federal court of exposing them to additional litigation with a settlement that failed to preserve federal jurisdiction over future disputes.

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Law Firm Sues Sierra Leone Over $361K Legal Bill

By Jared Foretek

Law firm Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC claims in a complaint filed in D.C. federal court that Sierra Leone's government stiffed it on more than $300,000 in legal fees and costs after the firm defended it against earlier claims of unpaid fees by Jenner & Block.

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Mich. Supreme Court Chief Next To Lead Chief Justice Group

By Melanie Dorsey

The Michigan Supreme Court's chief justice has been named president-elect of the Conference of Chief Justices, a national organization representing the highest-ranking state judicial officers, and she plans to focus on expanding access to legal services, reforming attorney licensing and strengthening courthouse security.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. Department of Justice's new cash rewards program for tips on criminal fraud could backfire in some cases, experts say. Elsewhere, attorneys are weighing new strategies in the wake of Texas' historic blue shift during the midterm elections. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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